Monica Edwards Net Worth

Monica Edwards net worth and salary: Monica Edwards is a Children's Author who has a net worth of $1.1 Million. Monica Edwards was born in in November 8, 1912. Best remembered for her Punchbowl Farm and Romney Marsh book series, this twentieth-century British children's novelist published such popular individual titles as Wish for a Pony, The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm, and No Going Back.
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💰Monica Edwards Net worth: $1.1 Million

About

Best remembered for her Punchbowl Farm and Romney Marsh book series, this twentieth-century British children's novelist published such popular individual titles as Wish for a Pony, The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm, and No Going Back.

Before Fame

Born Monica le Doux Newton in Derbyshire, England, she grew up as the daughter of a minister and studied at Wakefield Girls' High School and St. Brandon's School. Early in her life, she was deeply affected by the sinking of the Mary Stanford Lifeboat off the coast of Great Britain; she lost seventeen friends, including a teenage love, in the disaster, and later published a book -- Storm Ahead -- about the accident.

Trivia

She frequently collaborated with artist Geoffrey Whittam; other illustrators of her books included Joan Wanklyn and Anne Bullen.

Family Life

In her early twenties, she married Bill Edwards, a man ten years her senior. The couple raised two children: Shelley and Sean.

Associated With

She and Eleanor Farjeon were both popular English children's authors of the early Twentieth Century.